While We Wait for the Drill Results Goldman17, Shylockreturns and JDgreat1 were seated next to a seasoned gold investor on an airplane and they turned to him and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passengers."
The wise gold investor, who had just started to read his book, replied to the three strangers, "What would you want to talk about?"
“Oh, I don't know," said the three. "How about gold investing, junior mining stock valuation and stock manipulation” as they smiled smugly.
“Okay," he said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff, grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
The three, visibly surprised by the old investor’s intelligence, thought about it and said, "Hmmm, we have no idea." To which the seasoned gold investor replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss investing, gold stocks and stock manipulation, when you don't know $hit?"